Cross your fingers
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I'd be surprised if Cato's record stands ten years from now, especially with the likelihood of expanded playoffs. The top teams in the country will be playing 14-16 games a season, and with college football becoming more and more an offensive game with each passing year, its just a matter of time. Somebody will have a streak in the 50's pretty soon.
This post was edited on 1/13 8:05 PM by herdalicious
This post was edited on 1/13 8:05 PM by herdalicious
First off this is a pretty difficult feat. The player have to start from their freshman year in order to have the best shot at surpassing Cato's mark which I believe stands at 46. If they don't start from the time they step on campus and don't start until their sophomore season they will need to play in 15.6 games a season. Which as of right now is impossible to do considering there is only a maximum of 15 games per season. Even at that you are asking that team to play in three straight national titles.
If you played just a standard 12 game schedule plus a bowl game and started game 1 as a freshman by the end of your junior season you would have 39 straight games. That means it would take until game 8 of their senior season to pass Cato. As of right now there is only 15 possible games a season.
Then you have to factor in if the guy leaves early like Mariota may end up doing and bad weather games that end up being running TDs or FGs. There were several games throughout Cato's streak where he almost ended it. Heck even this year there were a couple games with only one TD pass and some pretty late.
You could be hitting in rhythm all game and your WRs getting tackled inside the 5 and you end up running them in.
A lot has to go right. I think if Mariota leaves then Cato's record will stand for a while.
You also didn't factor in injury.
Mariota and types like him, take abuse all the time. Just look at osu's string of QB's who got hurt...
Cato was very fortunate to not get seriously injured while playing...and as Bleeds said, he'd have to start his freshman year and work his way to senior year.
If he should stay 4 years. Cato stayed because he pretty much had to.
Several QB's who have a streak of any sort, will become much more coveted in their stock and will bolt at the best time possible. The ESPN talking heads will bring up streaks and stats...give anyone Cato's stats from this season...or just his last 2 seasons...they'd be gone to the NFL.
Not to say his record won't ever be broken, but you have to take into account the overall changes in NCAA football...and that it's now used a stepping stone for better things in the pros and you likely aren't staying for 4 years either.
Mariota and types like him, take abuse all the time. Just look at osu's string of QB's who got hurt...
Cato was very fortunate to not get seriously injured while playing...and as Bleeds said, he'd have to start his freshman year and work his way to senior year.
If he should stay 4 years. Cato stayed because he pretty much had to.
Several QB's who have a streak of any sort, will become much more coveted in their stock and will bolt at the best time possible. The ESPN talking heads will bring up streaks and stats...give anyone Cato's stats from this season...or just his last 2 seasons...they'd be gone to the NFL.
Not to say his record won't ever be broken, but you have to take into account the overall changes in NCAA football...and that it's now used a stepping stone for better things in the pros and you likely aren't staying for 4 years either.
Any team that drafts him top 10 didn't watch what a physical defense does to his game.
That will be amped up double or triple in the league.
If he can't scramble and move around to create, he isn't that great in the pocket. When you scramble constantly in the league big DBs and fast LBs find you and hurt you.
He was not even close to ohio states qb and that was his third game. after manziel I say cato is about as good as any of them
